Innocence and Expression
Creative Selfies - 4 Ways to Make a portrait
Saturdays in September on ZOOM
Children aged 6 - 16 years old
2pm - 3.30pm
Saturday 5th September - Frida Kahlo Style! - Ray Gumbley
Saturday 12th September - Picasso Style! - Marie Hegarty
Saturday 19th September - Andy Warhol Style! - Nicki Dennett
Saturday 26th September - Banksy Style! - Lucie Maycoc
COMPETITION!
Make a Creative Selfie Portrait this September!
We want to celebrate YOU!
Grab your paint brush, camera, costume, pencils, scissors and mirrors and get creating throughout September!
NEED INSPIRATION?
Check out www.artcoreuk.com for top tips on how to make a creative selfie in different styles!
We've had a busy month handing out packs and running monday mindful moments session for Stay Connected.
We want to keep you connected with us through this time so get involved by watch our Mindful Moments and Movements sessions every Monday on Artcore Facebook
We also run our art surgery hotline on a Monday and offer tech support. Like to know more?
Sign up here
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Creatively supporting our communities to cope with loss and bereavement during the Coronavirus
On Thursday 13th August we held our launch event for In our Thoughts project. This year long project is supported by the mental health charity MIND. A partnership initiated by Artcore and Sahahra to support our communities to cope with Coronavirus.
This month, we received 84 applications towards our residency Present Tense, Future Perfect? It was a mammoth task to choose only two artists to be in residence with us over the next month but we are happy to announce who they are! Joining us as artists in residency for the Present Tense, Future Perfect? Residency is Thomas Wynne and Kelly O'Brien, both Derby-based artists. Here is little more about them.
Artcore wants to expand and diversify our pool of associates. Becoming part of the Artcore Associates would give creatives an opportunity to approach Artcore to help them realise a project or initiative that is still in the ideation or developmental stage.
Derbyshire Public Health has launched this emergency fund - https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/lottery-funding/covid-19-emergency-fund/covid-19-emergency-fund.aspx
Patient health and social watchdog care Healthwatch Derbyshire is asking local people the reasons behind why they have not accessed virtual appointments with a doctor, nurse or carer during lockdown as part of a new research project.
The aim is to understand the knock-on effects of COVID-19 on Derbyshire residents who have either been unable to access virtual appointments by telephone or video or who have chosen not to.
A specialist child exploitation charity is looking for new premises in central Derby to enable it to expand its team and support more young people and their families.
Safe and Sound, currently based in Darley Abbey Mills, supports children and young people across Derbyshire who are victims of or at risk of child exploitation which includes online grooming, sexual exploitation, County Lines, Modern Slavery and trafficking as well as raising awareness of the issues in local communities.